A-Z of Wool Embroidery

Compiled by the expert team at Country Bumpkin, renowned Australian publishers of embroidery books and magazines.

General information 4



Stitches and techniques

Algerian eye stitch 6

Back stitch 7

Battlement couching 8

Berlin work 9

Blanket stitch 10

Blanket stitch – detached 11

Blanket stitch – looped 12

Blanket stitch – pinwheel 12

Blanket stitch – twisted detached 14

Brick and cross filling 15

Bullion knot 16

Bullion knot – loop 17

Bullion knot – rose 18

Canvas work 20

Chain stitch 20

Cloud filling stitch 21

Colonial knot 22

Coral stitch 23

Couching 24

Cretan stitch 25

Crewel embroidery 26

Cross stitch 27

Detached back stitch 28

Detached chain 29

Ermine filling stitch 30

Fishbone stitch 30

Florentine embroidery 31

Fly stitch 31

Fly stitch leaves 32

French knot 33

Ghiordes knot 33

Granitos 35

Laid work 36

Long and short stitch 37

Moss stitch 38

Needlepoint 39

Outline stitch 39

Palestrina stitch 40

Pompom 41

Rope stitch 42

Rosette stitch 43

Roumanian stitch 44

Running stitch 45

Satin stitch 46

Scroll stitch 47

Seed stitch 47

Soft shading 48

Spider web rose 49

Split stitch 50

Split back stitch 50

Stem stitch 51

Stem stitch – whipped 51

Straight gobelin stitch 52

Straight stitch 52

Tent stitch – continental 53

Tent stitch – half cross 54

Trellis couching 55

Velvet stitch 56

Wool rose 57

Woven filling stitch 59



Designs 60



Patterns 112



Index 126



Acknowledgements 128